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Word: sayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief reasons for this increase, Medical School officials say, is their student financial aid program. During the past decade, financial aid to medical students has gone up 740 per cent. During the same period, tuition rates went up only 73 per cent. Since 62 per cent of the School's tuition money is used for financial aid, officials feel the raise is justified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Graduate Schools Plan Tuition Increases | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

Renting the Stadium, Sullivan added, would be "another chance for the University to gain acceptance in the community." He was quick to say, however, that he does not plan to use any pressure in his attempt to use the University football field...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Pro Football Team Head Calls Stadium First Aim | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

Lecturing before such varied audiences, Duroselle has had an opportunity to note the differences between undergraduates of contrasting nationalities, yet he finds them all rather similar. "There is a bit more individualism in French students," he comments. "That is to say, they don't like so much to be members of clubs and organizations. Here there is much more a sense of community...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: The Gift of Laughter | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

...this is sad since his wit is less honed than that of his wife, whose part is a bit overplayed by Sarah Cunningham. Carnovsky's magnificent outbursts take on meaning from his more frequent displays of quiet resignation before wife's and fate's hand: "Did I say no?" he asks, seeking reconciliation. "The only thing was I didn't say yes loud enough...." This is a tremendously funny play. But the humor is warm, so close to life that it could not possibly be transmitted without the people. The humor exists in the tangled logic of the Jews' existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The World of Sholom Aleichem | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

...with a packet of poems and no money. For two months he wandered to the Northwest, trading poems and talk for food, announcing to startled householders that "I am the sole active member of the ancient brotherhood of the troubadours." Back in Springfield, townspeople snickered; later he was to say, "People thought I fought for fame, but I only fought my way through from being the town fool and the family idiot.'' It was a long fight; Lindsay was 33 when Harriet Monroe printed General Booth (with its parenthetical instructions for bass drum, banjo and flute accompaniment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of Springfield | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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